dual boot

First of all i didn't know where to post this so sorry if it's in the wrong section Ok so about 2 years ago i got bored of windows 7 so i wanted to try out a new OS, i went to install it as a dual boot (Ubuntu) and it said there was an error and couldnt be installed, sad and dissapointed, i...

Win 7 Home Premium. I was doing dual boot with Win 7 and Win 10 TP. I decided to remove the dual boot. So, I went to disk management and removed the volume where Win 10 was. The trouble is, the partition should be marked as unallocated. Instead it is marked as free space. Now, I right clicked...

Laptop #1..... 32-bit. Win 8.1 Pro dual boot with Win 10 TP Laptop #2..... 64-bit. Win 7 dual boot with Win 10 TP There is something inherently wrong with the Win 10 TP iso non-Enterprise copies. Both 32-bit and 64-bit copies. In both copies ( 32 and 64 bit ), sfc found corrupt files but unable...

Hi I am having a issue dual booting windows 8.1 and 7 I upgraded from the windows store and I disabled secure boot and I put csm mode to boot into my usb drive and after that I clicked on the partition and it said that I cannot install windows the partition is of the style is gpt please help...

Within the span of one week, I have installed Dual Boot on my 2 laptops. Win 7 and Win 10 TP 64-bit Win 8.1 Pro and Win 10 TP 32-bit In BOTH cases, after install and before I started to install programs, I made a restore point, and then did a sfc. Both cases, sfc reported corrupt files but...

I dual booted Windows 10 with my Windows 8.1 laptop. I had set up Windows 10 as a new PC. But later, due to low space on my hard disk, I removed it. But, in my Internet explorer it still shows tabs from Windows 10, both on my laptop and my Lumia phone. So, now that I don't have 10 installed on...

I have a Sony Vaio Fit laptop. It is my main working (and only btw :p) laptop. So I thought I'd just dual boot Windows 10 with 8.1. So, I created a 40GB partition on my hard drive. I downloaded the x64 version of Windows 10 and burned it to a USB drive with Windows 7 DVD USB tool installer. I...

Hi Well I'm on day 2 of running Windows 10 in a dual boot setup with Windows 8. I have to say I'm impressed, it works great, a really big improvement over Windows 8. I have a lot of my software installed, Photoshop is next, but I have all the normal stuff like CCleaner, Defraggler, Open...

Ok, so earlier today I was trying to load Ubuntu on my ThinkPad. When I tried to load it on the boot menu it just loads Windows 7. I have also tried this with Chromium OS. But it just loads Windows 7 as usual. Does anyone know a fix to this? My model is a Think T60 2009 (I think.)

I asked this question here and i was suggested to ask on a windows forum. I want to uninstall Ubuntu, so i need to delete its partition. Here's a screenshot of Disk Management in Windows: So can you tell me please which are the Ubuntu partitions? edit: They answered me that the Ubuntu...

Hi Just a really quick question about running a OS in VMware Player (I said VB in the title and I can't change it now). I installed Ubuntu into VMware Player and it runs really slow. Everything works even the sound but video stutters etc, I'm assuming that's because my computer is really...

Hi All, I've just signed up to this Forum as I have downloaded and created a Windows 8.1 Enterprise DVD. My current OS is W7 Ultimate and I have Ubuntu installed on a separate partition, I wish to install W8 onto the Ubuntu partition. If I boot the DVD from W7 I have no options to choose a...

I just bought a SSD drive that I'd like to install Windows 8.1 on. I probably need to set the PC to boot to DVD and select this drive as the drive to install the system to. I am currently on Windows XP which I still would like to keep. So how can I install Windows 8 wihtout losing my old system...

have a dual boot dell vostro 1500 8.1/old 7 lap, upgraded from vista to 8 to 8.1. has always been flaky on 8. numerous fails/crashes for various reasons. i no longer use w7 partition as i moved 7 key to another pc and am reluctant to do a fresh install of 7 (painful update process). can i...

I recently tried to install open suse with a dual boot. But it failed and I can no longer access windows. I would like to know if installing an OEM copy of windows 8 will help.

Hi. I have been given a computer with Windows Vista Home Premium 32 bit installed. I would like to install Windows 7 Ultimate 32 Bit, but without interfering with Vista. The reason I need to do this is because the PC I was given has Microsoft Visual Studio on it, (installed on Vista) and I...

Hi guys i've been facing the blue screen of death issue from yesterday.I know there are already many thread on this issue but also did notice the solution was different for different people so thats why i created my own thread. Stuff i did recently in my computer: 1) Recently i've installed...

Hello all, I am attempting to dual boot windows 8 and a linux distro and I fear I may have obfuscated a hdd partition. I ran a bash to find out how my drive partitions are looking: Boot Info Script 0.61 [1 April 2012] ============================= Boot Info Summary...

I have installed windwos 8.1 in my computer, I want install windows 7 inside of my win8.1 . but I don't like I'll be saw windows chosen page. and I like when I turn on computer windows 8.1 automatically load up and just when I'll need to use windows 7 just I press a key (Such as F7 or F10 or any...

Hello guys! One day, I wanted to format my pc with Windows 7, but when formated it, it got two windows 7, one on each disc partition. Now, I want to format the pc and delete both windows 7, but I want to save one of the partitions... How can I do it?